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The President of the Chamber of the International Court of Justice formed to
deal with the above-mentioned case,
Having regard to Article 48 of the Statute of the Court and to Article 18,
paragraph 3, and Articles 44 and 92 of the Rules of Court,
Having regard to the Special Agreement concluded on 24 May 1986 between the
Republic of El Salvador and the Republic of Honduras for the submission to a
chamber of the Court of a land, island and maritime frontier dispute between
the two States and to the Order of 8 May 1987 by which the Court decided to
accede to the request of the Parties to form a special chamber of five
judges to deal with the case, and declared the Chamber to have been duly
constituted,
Having regard to the Order made by the Court on 27 May 1987 by which 1 June
1988 was fixed as the time-limit for the filing by each of the Parties of a
Memorial and to the Order made by the Chamber on 29 May 1987 by which it
authorized the filing of Counter-Memorials and Replies in the present case
as contemplated by the Special Agreement, and fixed 1 February 1989 as the
time-limit for the filing by each of the Parties of a Counter-Memorial and 1
August 1989 as the time-limit for the filing by each of the Parties of a
Reply, and
Having regard to the Order made by the President of the Chamber on 12
January 1989 extending, at the request of the Parties, the time-limit for
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the filing of the Counter-Memorials to 10 February 1989 and that for the
filing of the Replies to 15 December 1989;
Whereas the Counter-Memorials of the two Parties were duly filed within the
extended time-limit;
Whereas by a letter dated 27 November 1989, delivered by hand to the
Registry on 6 December 1989, the Agent of Honduras requested the extension
of the time-limit for the filing of the Replies to 12 January 1990;
Whereas the Agent of El Salvador, consulted pursuant to Article 44,
paragraph 3, of the Rules of Court, indicated by a facsimile communication
received in the Registry on 11 December 1989 that his Government had no
objection to such extension,
Extends to 12 January 1990 the time-limit for the filing by each of the
Parties of a Reply;
And reserves the subsequent procedure for further decision.
Done in English and in French, the English text being authoritative, at the
Peace Palace, The Hague, this thirteenth day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and eighty-nine, in three copies, one of which will be placed in the
archives of the Court and the others transmitted to the Government of El
Salvador and the Government of Honduras, respectively.
(Signed) Jose SETTE-CAMARA,
President of the Chamber.
(Signed) Eduardo VALENCIA-OSPINA,
Registrar. |
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